Diary of a grumpy old engineer

The higher a bad leader climbs, the more people below see exactly what kind of ass they truly are. – Ancient office proverb Leadership is one of those topics everyone claims to understand, yet very few actually demonstrate. What’s fascinating, and occasionally exhausting, is how often people assume that a bigger title automatically means deeper […]

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the Systems Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. – Anonymous I’ve spent a couple decades watching systems engineering mutate across industries like some kind of evolutionary experiment nobody asked for. So here’s […]